A cartoon that punishes you the second you move at the wrong moment.

The picture is harsh, almost across the board. On gut feeling, Space Ace only edges out 8% of games, and no criterion comes to the rescue. How it feels in the hands sits at the very bottom, so does the sound side, attachment and the desert island stay very low, art direction is barely better, several of those lines on few votes. Only rediscovery climbs slightly, without changing anything. Let us call it what it is: a 1983 laserdisc, hand animated, where your role boils down to pressing the right direction on the right tenth of a second. Back then the beauty of the drawings was the pitch. Today, criteria that ask about feel and staying power can only punish it.

Against modern action games there is no shared ground: no loop, no progression, no freedom. It is a film where you pay for every mistake.

So, who is it for? For you if you love arcade curiosities, traditional animation and the idea of taking on a museum piece. Much less so if you want to actually play, in the full sense, with mechanics that answer you back.